Health News For North Simcoe Muskoka
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit
Young Adult Cessation Contest Moves into Our Community
The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit Tobacco Program is helping to promote a contest for 18- to 29-year-olds in the community who could use a cash incentive to help them stop or cut back on their smoking.
Registration is now open for the Wouldurather.ca contest. It offers eight weeks of free nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) patches or gum and the chance to win one of two $2,500 cash prizes when they sign up and quit smoking, $1,000 to cut back, $750 to party without the smoke or $250 to stay a non smoker!
More info can be found on the contest website wouldurather.ca or the health unit website www.simcoemuskokahealth.org.
We'd also appreciate your help. Please retweet our @SMDhealthunit tweets to help spread the word. Deadline to enter is Jan. 26 and the quit/reduce period runs for six weeks.
Leave the Pack Behind, which runs the contest in Ontario, did an evaluation of the 2011 contest on post-secondary campuses and results showed 20% who signed up to quit for good were still smoke free three months later. They estimated only 5% would have quit without the contest.